10 (Weird) Things You May Not Know About Me

It's been way too long since I actually wrote a block of text of any sort of decent length on the topic of anything other than music, or indeed apologising for my relative blogging activity. As the name suggests though, the pointless piss is only potentially perpetual. Alas, I do very much want to keep it going by sporadically feeding it tiny morsels of ideas; so I forced myself to sit down and collate a few facts about myself - perhaps strange, certainly useless - and lob them out into the open. Without further ado, here's a rubbish snapshot of me. If it were actually a snapshot, it'd be from a crappy disposable Kodak camera, thanks to somebody leaving it in a bag or pocket and fully winding the cog forwards. That was some 'further ado', wasn't it?

1. I'm quite trypophobic. Trypophobia is (unofficially) the fear of clustered holes. It's pretty bizarre.
2. I write my number 2s (that's the symbol, not the faecal matter) from bottom to top as opposed to top to bottom.
3. I'm obsessed with symmetry. I often find it difficult to get along with unsymmetrical objects, unless I acknowledge that for whatever reason they logically must be that way to exist with purpose.
4. In jest, I annually celebrate 'Yeaster', in the vain hope that the fungi will help me grow beyond my slightly stunted height.
5. I used to love Marmite, but now I hate it. I expect at some point soon to find myself ambivalent towards it.
6. My lucky number (though I understand it has no effect) is 6 - not because my birthday is the 6th of July, but because Charizard (my favourite Pokémon as a kid...and to this day) is number six on the Pokédex.
7. Despite having gone to church many a time as a child, but (tentative use of 'but', because of course science and religion can co-exist) also having always loved science in general, I'm strictly agnostic. Certainly when it comes to creationism I find it hard to believe anything, and so I've taken on a an attitude of "I'll never know, so why bother?" This lax approach creeps up into my life in many ways...
8. Alongside my brother (Josh Jenkins) and a long-time friend from Wales (Enya Williams), I devised conceptual ideas for a non-existent Beano themed racing video game. We drew courses, characters, cars... Not long after, coincidentally, the game became a reality in the form of Beanotown Racing. It was shite.
9. When I was roughly 9 years old, I concocted, bottled and labelled a 'potion' made from all kinds of liquids, powders and odd substances that I found around the house. I've still got it.
10. I discovered that a little bit of Oxy Face Scrub makes an excellent hand cleaner/softener. Throughout my college years, it helped me gather many comments and a small reputation... Dem bitches go crazy fo' dat. Don't they...? The secret's out.

Adios.

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